The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-28
FARM AND GARDEN.


made of concentrated potash, whale
oil and milk.
To properly keep straw and hay in
stacks the stacks must be so construct
ed as TO shed water.
The editor of the Orange County
Farmer trains his tomatoes to poles,
and they grow six feet high.
Cows that have no bedding are often
injured in the knees by getting up or
down. especially If the floors be wet
and slippery.
Lay in your stock of seeds for next
spring now. Every preparation should
be made before the busy season opens
in the spring.
Leaves gathered into heaps and al
lowed to lay and decay for two or
three years make an excellent fertilizer
for plants.
This is an excellent season for repair
ing the fences and buildings. If de-
tered, the spring with its hurry will
allow no time for such work.
Every farmer must know what kind
of swine breed well and are wanted in
the markets. That is the kind which
can be bred with profit.
Give the pigs burned cobs that is,
cobs charred to coal, but not to ashes.
Charcoal is good for them, and pro-
notes health and good digestion.
Prof. Detmers, of Ohio University,
says the greatest favor q hog once in
feeted with hog cholera can confer up
on its owner is to die at once.
Ii is said that wool grows more rap
idly in the fall than at any other sea-
SON The reason for this is that sheep
arc usually in better condition every
way at that season.
Although large tree can be trans
planted to new location. yet it will
not grow as rapidly nor as large as one
that has occupied the same place
since it sprung from the seed.
While milk is standing for cream
to rise, the purity of the cream, and
consequently the fine flavor and keep
ing of the butter will be injured if the
surface of the cream is exposed freely
to air much warmer than the cream.
Do not sacrifice your best lambs and
ewes because the butcher offers an extra
price, but retain them for breeding
purposes, first securing pure bred
male for grading up.
The value which competent judges
have assigned the various features of
butter is as follows: Flavor, 25; keep
qualities, 20; texture, 20; color, 10; APP
pearance, 10. Total, 100 points.
Mr.. A, B. Allen, expresses the opin-
ion that practical recognition of the
law of heredity of disease in domestic
animals, would add millions of dollars
annually to farmers incomes.
Mr.. j. F. Hyde reports that he chang
ed the bearing year of his apple orch
ard from the even to the odd year by
picking of all the fruit, not allowing
single bloom toperfcct itself.
The Poultry World says: "A tea
spoonful of glycerine and four or five
drops of nitric acid to pint of drink
ing water, will generally cure n fowl
that shows symptoms of bronchitis"
The larvae of the borer lives several
years in trees. Hence be sure to probe
for the borer and remove him If it be
possible. Borers have done more dam
age to the peach than all the diseases
known.
In icy times all kinds of stock are in
some danger. Horses should be sharp
shod, and the COW paths about the sta
bles and water troughs should be light
" strawed, so that the COWS need not
Sip.
A dairyman should keep rs many
cows only as he can feed we'll Ii is
not economical to divide the food
among large number when the same
results can be secured from q smaller
number well fed
A musy cellar is death to milk or
cream, but it seems impossible to pound
it into the heads of some people. More
butter is ruined by bad cellars and
caves than from any other cause on the
farm.
The coming buttermaker. according
% the National Stockman. must have a
clean mouth and breath, as we'll as
Glenn clothes and q clean apron. be